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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
HER CHRISTMAS HOSE.

In filling up her stocking have care
not to ''put your foot in it."-Hartford
Post.
Some people think that their stocking
would look about right if stuffed with
a sealskin cloak and sable muff.-
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
This will be a green Christmas for
the girl whose sister carries off the seal
skin sacque palm, as it were. She'll be
green with envy-Yonkers Statesman.
There is one day when the Chicago
girl snaps her fingers at her small-fOOted
sisters from other cities. That day is
Christmas. Her stockings hold so much.
Evansville Breeze.
The simple FIJI maiden is assured that
her behavior during the year has pleased
Santa Claus, when she finds tender
piece of missionary in her little stocking
on Christmas morning .-Pittsburg Com
mercial Gazette.
Those girls who get up on Christmas
morning disappointed because they
didn't find offers of marriage in their
stockings shouldn't be discouraged
tant.-Philadelphi Herald.
Young ladies who are contemplating
matrimony during the Christmas festi-
val should make sure that they can
comfortably support husband before
taking on themselves the lifelong re-
spOnsibility.- Sun.
Don't hang up any long red stockings
this Christmas. Kriss Kringle may not
mind them, but there is a possibility
that the man of the house may come
home slightly befuddled, and, mistak-
ing them for a fire, alarm the entire
neighborhood.- Herald.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS.

Sock it to 'em, Santa us!-Boston
Bulletin.
VIII the firemen hang up their hose?
Boston Bulletin.
In Wall street, we wonder if they
will hang up their stock kings.-W hite-
hall Times.
We never expect to see hanging abol-
ished at least, not the hanging of
stockingS.-Boston Post.
The prettiest thing in stocking
Christmas morning is a pretty girls
foot.-New Orleans Picayune.
The old saying that changing is too
good for them" is never understood to
apply to the Christmas stockings
Whitehall Times.
The man who would put lead pencil
in a girls stocking is mighty mean
man. 1t might leave no room for any
thing else.-St. Louis Chronicle.
stockings be hanged!" says the st.
Louis girl. st is only the Chicago belle
who expects to find grand piano in a
sock. New Orleans Picayune.
1t will be indeed an avaricious person
who, instead of stocking, will hang up
a pair of ballet dancers tights for old
Santa Claus to fill on Christmas Eve
Philadelphia Herald.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
CHRISTMAS GREENS.
You can't stop it. Christmas is com
ing.-Hartford Post.

You can't stop it. Christmas is COM
ing.-Hartford Post.
CHRISTMAS.
A great, good day for jails and pillories,
And also prosperous for distilleries.
Louisville Courier-J ournal.
There is no modern continuance like
the mistletOe, except the elevator. They
both mean STAND from under. PITTS
burg Commercial Gazette.
Don't volt until you can catch your
best girl under the mistletoe bOugh.
Kiss her wherever you find her,
Lowell Citizen.
The patient oyster that can calmly
contemplate the crowded events of
Christmas might be accepted as model
for the OSOpher.-PittSburg Com
mercial Gazette.
When we said last summer that
Christmas was coming, ScofferS were
not wanting, yet, behold, it is already
here. To him that waits all things
come.-Judge.
Christmas beggars are called 'swaits"
in England, because they come down so
heavily on unbuttoned pockets. They
have other names in this country, but
the bread is the same. 1t is much nicer
to give Christmas money to people who
don't ask for it.-Philadelphia Bulletin
Among the NOrwegianS it is a super.
stitiOn that if a turkey is killed on
Christmas day something terrific will
happen. Among Americans it is be-
lieved that something terrible will hap
pen if turkey is not killed on Christ
mas day or thereabouts.-Phi Philadelphia
Call.
Il have really spent so much money
with you this year that ought to come
in for a Christmas box" said the head
of the family to the dentist.
"AlI right, old fellow; come in on
Christmas day and I'll knock tooth
out for you."-San Francisco Chron-
| iele.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
Grand total capacity in 1887. .13 SIS 900
Grand total capacity in 1886. L, 500, 900

Increase during 1S87.........., 1,015,O0O
There is a good deal of interest at
tached to the modus operandi of hand
! ling wheat from the time it leaves the
| farmers hands to be stored in some
country elevator till the time for its
shipping to Minneapolis comes around.
| 1t finally is loaded upon the cars spe-
! cially used in wheat carrying, and rolls
! through the fertile lands and fields on
its way to this city. When it arrives
here 1t is taken.in charge by the state
and rate it at such and such grade.
There has been good deal of complaint
against the inspection this year, but
lately more satisfaction has been
given, and it is hoped in future
| there will be no further cause to
| grumble on the part of the grain and
commission men. In due time the
wheat is stored away in the city eleva-
tors, whence it goes to the mills, where
| it is worked into those famous flour
grades for which Minneapolis is so very
well known. The flour of Minneapolis
travels to the uttermost ends of the
earth. A well known traveller has seen
1.-The Pillsbury brands in Lapland, and
from Glasgow, Scotland, the great re-
ceiving port in the old world, Mime
| dpOllo uOul 10 oHiPPSu ttOAA OhS LIZ VI
Europe to the other, besides supplying
all the adjacent states in the Union,
both to the wholesale and retail trade.
One can hardly go in any city, town, or
| village that he does not see the printed
word Minneapolis" ON -four sacks dis
played in store windows or in c0nspicu-
Gus places in front on the sidewalk. 1t
| is one of the best advertisements the
city ever had, and undoubtedly works
largely to Minneapolis benefit.
| THE BANNER WHEAT RECEIPTS.
Despite the fact of a drouth and
| chinch bugs, this has been the bonanza
year in the line of wheat receipts, with
! November as the banner month. There
has never been seen anything like it.
There has never been known among
railroad men such demand for rolling
| stock. It amazes strangers to see the
conditions of the markets locally, and
euen nonplusses some of the veterans in
the time hOnOred business of milling.
The following statement will bear ali
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

Head, baskets; NJ. E. Conkling, bustles;
NJ. Ramstead, bustles; Shotwell, Cleri-
hew 81 Lothian, oyeralls; Nudd &
Holmes, eavetrOughs: Price COndit
Fence company; Ii. Boettcher, files;-
Mcneil d Ferguson, car wheels; North
: western Knitting company, Minnesota
Soap company, Northwestern Soap
company, John Connolly, horse collars;
Minneapolis Paper mill, Minneapolis
Straw board company, Minnesota Lin
seed Oil company, W. w. Sly, Paint
Manufacturing company, Ball d Nay
lor, Manufacturing company, lamps;
penders, Mrs. II. T. Smell, suspenders;
Robinson & Stringham, tinware; j. Il.
Barnum, trunks; X. n. Woolett, trunks;
Fuller Bros, washboards; North Star
Wooden Mill company. s1,5s6, 900.
Money paid in at present, Sc, 245,60
Railroad Car Shops - Minneapolis
500 Sault Marie. Atlantic d Pacific,
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, Mime
apolis & st. Louis. S2,000,000.
Suburban Manufactures - Minneap-
oils Iron Roller Mill company, 1000;
Minneapolis Stock Yards Il Packing
company, sl,OO0,0O0; Minneapolis Min
ing, Smelling d. Refining company,
100000; Northwestern Smoke Con-
sumner company, SI0,UUU, HAIRS QUA
works, slo00o; Minneapolis Threshing
Machine company. s250,o00; total, ST.
4S5,000.
Total amount actually invested IN
manufacturing, exclusive of flour and
lumber mills, $3.50, 300, representing
plants rated at SIG, 900. 900. A conserva-
tive estimate of the money actually in
vested in flour and lumber would nearly
double this figure.
During the past year there have not
been many new manufactures added
TO the already large number here, but
those that did come were big ones, and
will in every way help the city. The
big factories have been located of late in
the suburbs, where real estate is
cheaper and there are no city taxes to
pay. This is the case with the La
Belle Wagon works, which will be
soon removed here from Wisconsin.
The steady march Of Improvement
has brought many factory into the
city limits, and is continually bringing
others. 1t is only a question of time
when Hopkins and Fridiey, and other
suburban points, where there are now
large manufacturing interests. will be
incorporated into Minneapolis. The
day is surely coming when Minneapolis
will rank as one of the biggest manu-
featuring centers of the world, and that
day is not far distant.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

earthenware of good quality. Various
other settlers followed Mr. kampf'S eX-
ample in entering upon manufacturing.
and when Charles Estes, who had come
from Maine, engaged in making good
quality of brick on his farm in st. An
thony, it was thought the limit had
been reached, and the fame of the 1'City
by the Falls" went forth far
and wide, and considerable atten-
ton was attracted to this place.
Numerous manufactures of various
kinds came rushing in, the prOprietorS
having heard of the wonderful water
power here and the facilities offered for
doing a general manufacturing bust
ness. Buildings of all kinds were rushed
to completion, and machinery of all sorts
was one of the main articles of freight
that arrived at the city. In short time
there were twenty manufacturing eStab-
liShmentS where there were not i've the
year before. Saw mill after saw mill was
located near the falls, and the amount
of water drawn from the river to run
them taxed the water power to Its ut
most. This was before steam had'come
into general use in manufacturing
way here in the Northwest, and when AT
last there was not power enough gener-
ated by the falls to run all the mills that
Wdnleu 10 cOIIlG III, COHSlucIdUlc didlIi
was felt by some, who saw, in their fear
stricken minds, Minneapolis sinking
back into nothing, her mills already
erected falling into decay, and her resi-
dences given over to the bats and owls
for building places. This dismal
and fOrbidding sight was not
destined to be seen, however, for when
it was found that the mills could not all
,, be run by water, there was rush for
locations favorable for steam plants.
| Manufacturers came rushing in again,
looked over the ground carefully and
then removed here, or else started in
new enterprises which have helped to
build up Minneapolis and make her the
| metropolis of the great Northwest. In a
short time the Shrill scream Of steam
whistles was heard in every part of the
city on the banks of the lakes and along
the creeks, up and down the river and
even at points remote from any water.
This was the turning point in the his
tory of manufacturing in Minneapolis,
and ever since then, when it was found
there was room for all and that all goods
made could be easily disposed of, fac
tory after factory has been built here,
and now the business embraces the max
ing of all kinds of goods from file to a
locomotive, and from paper box, just
big enough TO hold a diamond ring, to
big wooden box, large enough to live
in almost
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
SENSIBLE CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
The Way a Wise Man Works the
Holiday Racket.

Chicago Herald.
"This custom of making Christmas
presents is getting to be nuisance"
said man with long nose yesterday.
Its being run to such an extent that a
married man has to go broke about three
months in the year just for the sake of
keeping his wife in good favor with the
neighbors.
81 know man and his wife up on
Jackson street who take the proper
view of this question. Whenever the
wife wants pair of lace curtains for
Christmas she makes present of them
to her husband, and when the old man
thinks the piano would look better un-
der a new covering he buys the article
and gives it to his wife. So, you see,
that while each receives present from
the other, both are the beneficiarieS, for
the gift is invariably an article of house
hold necessity or adornment."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

was a private institution. 1t has cap
ital stock of S150.0O0 with large sur
plus and deposit account. Its president
is T. w. Wilson, and Cashier M. ].
Bofferding. Its prosperity has been in
keeping with that of the city and it is
classed among the important banking
houses of the Northwest. The elegant
seven-story building the bank occupies
was built by it year ago, and is one of
the best lighted and most slightly bust
ness blocks in the city, as can be seen
from the above cut. The past sea-
son the finishing touches were put
on the interior. making it a marvel of
beauty. The hall of every floor is fin
ished in Lincrusta Walton, brought up
in antique metals of various colors.
The room occupied by the bank has the
entire interior finished the same, while
the ceiling has ornaments in bas relief.
This style of finish is not only indie
structibie, but is the most modern and
dignified imaginable, and adds a partic-
ular attraction to those visiting the
building.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

These figures admit of no dispute and
emphatically proclaim Minneapolis is
proudly keeping on the road to success
and prosperity upon which she
launched twenty years ago. With
these figures almost incredible, but new
ertheleSs true, she passes loftily beyond
the reach of Chicago or st, Louis; and
as for Duluth, that little ambitious vii
lage is left completely in the shade.
Minneapolis has won the title of the
greatest -four city on earth, and it will
be very cold day that she will let that
title be wrested from her now. She can
look back calmly and triumphantly on
the achievements of the past. AT this
merry Christmas time she can and does
look forward with confidence and assur-
ity in her coming prosperity next year.
and for many years to follow, placing
full confidence in such men as c. NJ.
Loring, Charles Pillsbury, John Wash
burn and John Crosby to steer the ship
of trade into as pleasant and safe
waters as it has hitherto cleaved in its
passage,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

year was the burning Of the
large st. Anthony elevator, and the sub
sequent fatal accident when the wall
fell and number of men working near
it were killed. This elevator has been
rebuilt since with a present capacity of
1,5O0, 900 bushels. The elevators known
as c and D, and operated by Van Dusen
& Co., will in future be known as the
Star elevators, with an increased capac-
ity over last year of SO0,0 900 bushels. d..
II. Putnam has put an addition to his
elevator, K, and these are the principal
changes that have taken place this year
in the elevator world. Following is a
list of the elevators and their several
capacities: =.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
What She Wants for Christmas.

A pert little miss who is just merging
into her teens is very much exercised,
just now, over the sort of Christmas
present she thinks she ought to receive.
Il think" she said to her mother,
''that Pm almost too big to have an
other doll. Don't you?"
perhaps sou was the reply.
'But, then, / wouldn't mind if had
Just one more. The old ones are not
very interesting now."-Hartford Post.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
Christmas Handkerchief.

Miss Ethel-Oh, Clara, Pm so glad l
met you. What can / give Jack for
Christmas?
Miss Clara-Make him something.
Gus always wants some of my work.
I've Just taken eleven fine cambria
handkerchiefs to Blanks to be embroid-
cred for him, and / can easily do the
twelfth myself, you know = with
mammals help.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
An Appropriate Christmas Gift.

6OSIOn buOSet.
Harry don't know what to give Ida
for Christmas present. / was thinking
set of furs might be the thing.
Will-YOu've been keeping company
with each other long enough; why don't
you give her yourself? 1t wouldn't be
quite so expensive as the furs.
Will-Well, since that's the case, give
her the furs. You'll only need to buy
the tippet, for you have already given
her the muff
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

You no doubt have seen a great many sales of
cheap Dress Goods and Silks Please do not let them
mislead you The like of this never seen before;
it's sale of necessity high grade of Silk and Wool
Dress Fabrics Pushes and Velvets sold at the lowest
range of prices heard of in modern times.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
A SHOCKING STOCKING.

Little Miss Careless Won Bocken
Had hole in the toe Of her stocking.
Her mother had told her
That Santa would scold her,
And, true, he declared 1t quite shocking.
-Yonkers Statesman.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

Creator intended the magnificent water
power here to be brought into use, and
intended to have the facilities offered
on every hand made use of to the ut
most. How well the opportunities
presented have been improved upon is
easily seen by walking a few miles in
either or both directions along the bank
of the Mississippi river, or visiting the
lakes on the outskirts of the city. Here
are factories of all kinds, and whatever
is not made in Minneapolis is not worth
having.
A HISTORICAL SKETCH.
Away back in the 40's, even before
the time of the great gold craze in Cali
fornia, the Indians were in possession
of st. Anthony falls, now part of Min
neapolis, and the best water power in
the Northwest. In the early part of the
40's the falls first began to attract atten-
ton of the few white settlers who then
made st. Anthony their home, and it
was here that manufacturing in Mime
apolis received its first start. The first
private manufacturing establishment
that was built in what is now one Of the
largest centers of the country was
erected by Ard Gregory, who had re-
sided in ST. Anthony since 1S49. This
was a saw mill, and was located on Min
nehaha creek. The building of this
mill was really the starting point in the
history of manufacturing in this city
But this mill was not the first one that
was built in Hennepin county. The
first mill IN this county, or in Minnesota
either. was the old government mill
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
Growth From a Log Pottery
to Thirty Millions Of
Money Invested.
Historical Sketches of the
Birth Of the Boom and
It's Growth.
What the City Manufactures
To-Day and the Capital
Required for 1t.

UEER, is it
mot, how sur
'prisingly fast
Min n eapolis
has sprung in
tOprOminence
as a nanufac-
turing city?
Yet, when one
t hin ks tn e
matter over
calmly and
cOOlly, it does
n OF S e e m
StraDon at all
for it is evil
dent from all
our surround
ings that the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

Our entire stock of Colored Wool
Dress Fabrics, thousands of yards, hun
dreds of styles, everything that is dur
able in wool and silk and wool, in
checks, in plaids, in stripes, in plain,
in mixtures, in fancy effects, in high
grades of novelties, all the shades, all
the colors, every one the popular sell
ers of the day, being the grandest line
ever offered at such sweeping reduc-
lions. The entire stock divided into
three great lots. You'll be the loser if
you let this sale pass by unheeded.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
The Bank of Minneapolis

is pleas
a IL I'll Y To-
ca ted in
co nnnnOdi-
Gus guar T.
tiers on the
S e o n d
floor of the
build ing
b y t Ii e
s a m e
name. Its
date of in
corpora
ton iS18S2,
t o u G h
prior to
that for a
number of
yea + S i t
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
Manufacturing in Minneapolis.

Following is a list of all the manu-
facturers in the city, that is, firms and
persons engaged exclusively in manu-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

featuring. 5 NC h
firms as Bradstreet,
Thurber & Co.,
which, while they
do a little manufac-
turing, such as
making an article
of furniture now
and then to suit
some customers
taste, are not given,
for the reason that
they are not manu-
featuring firms, and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

Our entire stock of 19-inch MORE
Silk Pushes. Our mammoth line of
19-inch Plain Pushes, in full line col
ors, former price $3.50 and s1.25; our
entire stock, over One Hundred pieces
Of rich, fancy Pushes, in stripes, in
checks, in plaids, in figured, in bro
cades, many worth up to $3.50.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

35 pieces broken line of double
warp Silk Serges; grade usually sold
at $1.25.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

that stood near
the west end of
the short line
bridge and was
torn down re-
Gently. T h i S
mill was built
in 1922 by the
United States
government. un-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25
A Story in Which Statistics
Enter Only as Corrobora-
tive Detail.

sumo of any of the branches of COM
mercial or industrial life in the present
day, it is customary to give series of
tabuiated statistical facts, and there
chiefly let the matter rest. This dry
and uninteresting method, no matter
how true to detail it may be, will never
be possible in relating the history of
the principal factor in the life-pros-
perity and future greatness of Minneap-
OF romance about it; because the history
of the mills of this city is one of the
most stupendous wonders i'm the
industrial history of this country,
and because the success and greatness
of this industry, at this particular point,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

and from it came the preservation of
the falls, with its 10000 horse power,
and the future hope and prosperity of
Minneapolis was thus assured. The
mainstay of the mills having been de-
scribed, 1t Is time now to make slight
mention Of those vast buildings
themselves. The initial mill was the
small government affair erected in 1922.
1t was small stone grist mill to supply
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-25

hamlets, calm. restful
lakes and streams
known TO the world
at large as the"North-
western States" that
nothing short of a
mind ottunad tn his
Telegram-herald., 1887-07-09

The continental congress first assembled Ia
Tndepenience hall "a Philadelphia, and cop
t.nnsd IT'S sessions there until etenlber, l1sS. f.
then IN Baltimore tll March. ut. when they
were again he'd in Philadelphia Ia Sep
temher the British suocess at i4andv'sine
placed the ciEy Al TIE mercy q the enemy
and congress was removed % Lancaster. Pa /,
FOR few days. then 70 York Pa, where its
sessions were continued tlh July. l4ss. On
TIE "a OF July il WAS again removed 70 Phil
adelphia 20 Feniain till June 80, lss3.
Q On Nov -, E.s5. congress convened at An
napolis, Nd on Nov. 80, iss4, at Trenton,
y J and the following January it removed
70 New York. continuing there until 1890
There the constitution was adopted, and the
fist Federal congress under that constitution
assembled. with Washington for president in
March, 1850. In 100 Philadelphia again be-
came the capital for ten years and in 1870
the capital was removed TO Washington.